River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-01
IN THE EAST.

Judge Potter at Whitehall, n. Y.
has granted stay in the Jacob Sharp case.
The Judge said there was reasonable doubt
that the judgement reached should stand
and he ordered a stay in the execution of
such judgment until an appeal shall be de
cided by the general term. 1t is said this
will give him new trial and may ad-
init him TO bail. In the Ludlow street iail
Mr. Sharp read the notification of the de
cision without showing any signs of emo
ton or making any comments upon it. Mr..
Sharp then handed il to his wife, who read
it and seemed to be delighted at the news
Bourke Cochran stated that the case could
not come upnow until the general term next
October. An application will at once be
made to have Sharp released on bail by
some judge Of the superior court.
Philadelphia Special: There was
sad scene in a coach on the early train from
Atlantic City Friday morning. A young
woman who gave her name as Emily Jessup
of Dubuque, Iowa, sat in the car with a sick
child, which died after the train had passed
Newtield. Mrs. Jessup was formerly Miss
Patton, and was deserted some time ago
by her husband, who also took the child
with him. She followed, found him at
Atlantic City, and was on her way back
when the child died.
Among the passengers on the steamer
Adriatic from Liverpool, just arrived at
New York is his highness, the Thakore
Shahib, of Limari, K. G. l. E., travelling
incognita as Sir Jawatsinglijee, K. c. l. f.,
accompanied by Mr. 7. r. Bridgewater and
suite. He is the first Indian prince to cross
the Atlantic to visit this country. The
prince proposes visiting all places of interest
but win first of all leave at once for Wash
ingtOn to pay his respects to President
Cleveland.
Rev. Moses Rogers Ga descendant of
John Rogers, who was burned at the stake
in England on account of his religious con
yictisns in the sixteenth century,, who was
probably tie oldest member of the MethO-
dist ministry in America, has died at Fresh
Ponds, Suffolk Co, Mass. The deceased was
in his Gath year and had been preaching
about seventy years.
At Newburyport, Mass, Aug. 2S.
Miss Phoebe Harrod was lOl years old. The
event was celebrated by a religious cere-
mOny, in which the old lady, who retains
much mental and bodily strength, took
part Rev. Mr.. Merton, who is 81 years old,
conducted the service. Half those present
were over 20 years of age.
At Rochester, y. Y, George Kulzer.
aged fifteen, was caught in a belt and
whirled about a shaft at the rate of 80 revo-
buttons a minute, at Weaver, Thomas q
Kinks shoe factory. One arm and his en-
tire clothing was wound about the shaft,
and the denuded body fell hfeless to the
floor below.
Louis Debeck, the post trader at the
Charleston, Mass, navy yard. has fallen
heir to a fortune of over 81. 000, 900, that sum
having been his share of an estate valued at
g., 10000 guilders left by his aunt in Java,
to be divides among seventeen nephews and
nieceS.
Rear Admiral Craven, United States
navy (retired), of Washington. d. C., died
at the Charlestown, Mass, navy yard of
heart disease. He was on a visit to his son.
who is connected with the navy yard as
civil engineer. Rear Admiral Craven was
eighty years Of age.
Ex-Town Clerk Mccormick, of
Union township, y. ]. was stung by al